The Weimar Republic : the crisis of classical modernity

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The Weimar Republic : the crisis of classical modernity

Detlev J. K. Peukert ; translated by Richard Deveson

(Penguin books)

Penguin, 1993

タイトル別名

Die Weimar Republik

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注記

Originally published as Die Weimarer Republik: [Frankfurt am Main] : Suhrkamp, 1987

First translated: [London] : Allen Lane, 1991

Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明・目次

内容説明

Examining the difficult choices left for a modern society with a tottering economy, this book considers the clash of generations, the advent of the new woman, the loosening class structures, the failures of pioneering welfare schemes, the flourishing of mass culture and intense conflicts between nostalgic traditionalism and "American" modernity. The book confronts the paradox of Weimar: the juxtaposition of the hopeful picture of avant-garde cultural achievement, and the bleak picture of political breakdown and social misery. Detlev J.K. Peukert is the author of "Inside Nazi Germany".

目次

  • Part 1: the Weimar republic and the continuity of German history - political turning-points, modernization and its tribulations, the demographic revolution, society at the crossroads, the halt to economic growth, four political generations. Part 2 New directions, 1918-23: old legacies and a new start, 1918-19 - hopes, decisions, disappointments, the making of the constitution - openness and compromise, the peace treaty and its problems, winding up the war on the domestic front, a revolution that failed, or a compromise that would survive?
  • the post-war crisis, 1920-23 - fulfilment and defiance, the inflationary decade, 1914-24, the republic on the defensive. Part 3 Modernization and its tensions: generation gaps and emancipatory struggles - the demographic transformation, "Superfluous" younger generation, the "new woman", rationalism and sexuality, mother's day and male fantasies
  • the post-war economy - rationalization and structural crisis - a trial run for corporatism, the irrational consequences of rationalization, the "Sick Economy" of Weimar, the attack on the "Trade Union State"
  • the welfare state - expansion and crisis - the creation of the welfare state, the limits of social engineering, the Kulturstaat and its contradictions, from retrenchment to selection
  • social milieux and political formations - social milieux in the 1920s - levelling and new segmentation, socialist working-class society 150 Catholic society, white-collar workers and the old Mittelstand, the Jews - emancipation, assimilation and discrimination, the transformation of the public domain
  • mass culture and the neue Sachlichkeit - late-Wilhelmine Avant-Garde and republican pluralism, towards a mass culture 167 radicalization and polarization, mass consumption
  • "Americanism" versus Kulturkritik - for and against 179 "Modern Living" and the modern city, the two faces of Kulturkritik. Part 4 Deceptive stability, 1924-91: revisionist alternatives in foreign policy - reparations, Germany and the world economy, rapprochement in the west, eastern policy and its contradictions, the shift to confrontation and GroBraum policy in 1930
  • the illusion of domestic stability - the electoral landscape - trends and problems, varieties of coalition, the ingredients of presidential supremacy, the republic's legitimacy at stake
  • the fragmentation of the political culture - the challenge from the elites, revolt in the provinces, the dynamism of the national socialist movement, the totalitarian temptation. Part 5 Total crisis, 1930-33: the world economic crisis - causes of the world economic crisis, the course of the crisis in Germany, the experience of crisis, the government's response
  • the erosion of options - the path towards authoritarianism, actions and reactions, 1930-32, the end of the Weimar republic, anti-fascism paralysed, 30 January 1933. Part 6 Review - the crisis of classical modernity.

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA21017708
  • ISBN
    • 0140125795
  • 出版国コード
    uk
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 原本言語コード
    ger
  • 出版地
    Harmondsworth, Middlesex
  • ページ数/冊数
    xv, 334 p.
  • 大きさ
    20 cm
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